Ziguinchor
Ziguinchor department is one of the 46 departments of Senegal, one of three located in the Ziguinchor region in the south-west of the country. The department has a single urban commune, that of Ziguinchor The department is also divided administratively into two arrondissements, Niaguis Arrondissement and Nyassia Arrondissement which are in turn split into rural communities.
- Department of Senegal with 275,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 23 metres (75 feet)
- …is also known as “Ziguinchor Department”
Ziguinchor
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Latitude
12.522° or 12° 31′ 19″ north
Longitude
-16.2162° or 16° 12′ 58″ west
Open location code
7C45GQCM+RG
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Ziguinchor” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة زيغنشور”
- Cebuano: “Ziguinchor (departamento)”
- Cebuano: “Ziguinchor”
- Chinese: “濟金紹爾省”
- Dutch: “Ziguinchor Department”
- Finnish: “Ziguinchorin departementti”
- French: “Département de Ziguinchor”
- Galician: “Departamento de Ziguinchor”
- German: “Département Ziguinchor”
- German: “Ziguinchor”
- Hebrew: “זיגינשור”
- Italian: “dipartimento di Ziguinchor”
- Italian: “Dipartimento di Ziguinchor”
- Japanese: “ジガンショール県”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ziguinchor Koān”
- Persian: “زیگوینچور”
- Portuguese: “Ziguinchor”
- Russian: “департамент Зигиншор”
- Slovenian: “departma Ziguinchor”
- Spanish: “departamento de Ziguinchor”
- Spanish: “Departamento de Ziguinchor”
- Spanish: “département de Ziguinchor”
- Spanish: “Ziguinchor”
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